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Na Tova Na Tova Fall 2012 Vol. 37 No.2 TISHREI 5773 T SHANA OVA TOM FORRESTALL Jaffa Gate for Vehicles •Greetings from the Consul General of Israel •Kadimah 2012...what a summer! •News From Around Our Region Today’s Science. Tomorrow’s Cures. 100% of your gift supports medical research in the Maritimes. DALHOUSIE MEDICAL RESEARCH FOUNDATION 5850 College Street, 1-A1 Sir Charles Tupper Medical Building, Halifax, NS B3H 4H7 1.888.866.6559 mollyappeal.ca CONTENTS President: Shulamith Medjuck The Atlantic Jewish Council President’s Message ............................................. 2 FALL 2012 From the Desk of Jon Goldberg .................................... 3 TISHREI 5773 VOL 37 NO. 2 From the Desk of Edna LeVine .................................... 4 Mailed under Canada Post Greetings From Consul Joël Lion ................................... 5 Publications Mail Sales Agreement No. 40052452 Camp Kadimah ................................................. 8 Executive Director: CIJA Report ................................................... 13 Jon Goldberg Editor: Doron Horowitz speaks on National Security ........................ 14 Edna LeVine Campus News ................................................. 15 Contributing Editor: Joel Jacobson Nahum Goldman Fellowship ..................................... 15 Layout & Printing: Dragon Boat Paddler Helps Bring Sport to Israel ...................... 17 Halcraft Printers Inc. Advertising Artist Gives Collection to Acadia University ......................... 18 Edna LeVine Kaitlyn Lawrence Newcomers Lives .............................................. 20 Ethan Macaulay Around Our Region: Halifax ...................................... 24 Address all correspondence including advertising enquires to: Around Our Region: Cape Breton ................................. 27 Editor, c/o Shalom Atlantic Jewish Council Around Our Region: Fredericton .................................. 27 5670 Spring Garden Road Suite 309 Halifax, Nova Scotia B3J 1H6 Around Our Region: Saint John ................................... 29 Tel. (902) 422-7491 - Fax (902) 425-3722 [email protected] Around Our Region: Moncton .................................... 31 [email protected] Around Our Region: Newfoundland ................................ 33 www.theajc.ns.ca This publication is printed by Youth in Israel ................................................ 38 Rabbis Corner ................................................. 41 Phone: (902) 453-4511 - Fax: (902) 453-4517 Cover artist Tom Forrestall Email: [email protected] On October 28th, 2010 Tom Forrestall, accompanied by his son Frank, joined with 24 participants on an eight day AJC – UIA Ruach and Chevra Mission to Israel. Together Note to our reAders Our Atlantic Jewish community is losing more and more with this group of Maritimers and former Maritimers, the Forrestalls traveled to many members as the years go on. parts of the country; from the Negev to the south, to the Northern Galilee Panhandle. In the past, Shalom has printed stories of regional When the mission was completed, Tom, assisted by Frank, spent the next 27 days in community members who have passed away. the Holy Land wandering through Israel, during which he painted 35 watercolours, While we try to acknowledge the major contributions of expressing his feelings and personal observations of many parts of the country. many of our late friends and family members, we request Tom Forrestall is one of Canada’s most exciting realist painters. Forrestall was born in that you inform Shalom of passings of which we may be Annapolis Valley of Nova Scotia in 1936. In 1965, he held his first solo show at Roberts unaware so we may recognize these individuals. Gallery in Toronto and has since continued to show in galleries and museums across Shalom’s editorial staff reserves the right to determine the Canada. He completed a large outdoor piece for Expo ’67. He was elected a member of length of memorial pieces to be printed in the magazine. the Royal Canadian Academy in 1973. Written articles are the opinion of the individual writers and do not necessarily reflect the opinion of the AJC. Tishrei 5773 - Vol 37 No. 2 Page President’s Message by Shulamith Medjuck ne of the diverse, yet small Jewish downsides of community. And finally, being President and by no means less Oof the Atlantic Jewish important, we maintain Council is that for our commitment to Israel about a month before and in particular the your article for Shalom smaller communities in Magazine is due, you the North of Israel. start thinking about The AJC is an having to write that organization whose article. When the mandate is to serve the deadline is still a long entire Atlantic Jewish way off, you begin to community, to maintain think about what you and enhance our profile should say. Somehow at the national level, you hope that and to continue our inspiration will come. support of Israel. The As the deadline looms Board and Management closer and closer, a few Miry Mikaelov, Shulamith Medjuck & Nana Shteinberg at the opening exhibit Team want to have ideas begin to seep into Shaping Canada: Exploring Our Cultural Landscapes a big enough tent for your subconscious. at the Canadian Museum of Immigration at Pier 21 everyone and everything. Unfortunately these the challenges that the AJC faces. Atlantic Our challenging task is brilliant ideas are gone before you Canadian Jewry are a very diverse group how can we accomplish this? How do we have had a chance to jot them down. of individuals. We are spread across four develop programs that appeal to such a I started to carry around a small provinces with widely divergent needs. broad range of people and experiences? notebook so when that brilliant We are in every possible age bracket, How do we build a sense of community inspiration hit, I would jot down from our children to our seniors. Some of amid this diversity? How can we help each something. About a week before us have been blessed with great wealth, and every Jew in the region feel a part of that looming deadline, I looked at while others struggle to make ends meet the AJC community? How can the Atlantic my notebook where there are about and also everything in between. Some of Jewish Council create the Atlantic Jewish 15 words scribbled. Twelve of these us have lived in the region all our life, Community? items are part of a grocery list and the while others are newer immigrants. We Underlying everything we do is a set of remaining three words are completely have families with young children, empty values and beliefs, a sense of connection, illegible. nesters, singles, and seniors. This profile a belief that Jewish continuity in Atlantic When I asked my sister Sheva for a theme of our communities is ever evolving Canada matters and that these values are for the High Holiday edition of Shalom and changing. Some of us are Jews who transmitted through our ongoing efforts to Magazine, she asked me what I had envelope our entire existence in living as serve. written in last year’s edition. When I told a Jew, while others have a more tenuous May you all be sealed in the Book of Life her, she said that that was a good idea. Her attachment to being Jewish. Some of us for the coming year. My sister Sheva and I advice was just use that theme again, no are committed to the goals of the AJC wish everyone a sweet, happy and healthy one will remember and no one will notice. while others are indifferent to the AJC and New Year. When I retorted would she allow a student Mark David, CIJA Consultant, Advocacy. to hand in the same paper for two different Compounding these challenges on the assignments she said no. But she added, local level, is that the AJC strives to keep SAVE THE DATE “If a whole year had gone by I might have a profile at the national level by serving AJC BIENNIAL CONVENTION forgotten”. I thanked her for her useless on a number of national committees. Our advice and though I was a bit tempted, I RD TH goal here is to ensure that the broader NOVEMBER 23 -25 , 2012 decided on a new theme for my article. Canadian Jewish community understands H A LIF A X What I would like to talk to you about are the unique issues we confront as this Page Tishrei 5773 - Vol 37 No. 2 From the Desk of Jon Goldberg, Executive Director elcome to our Yom Tov organization. Director of Regional Community Services edition of Shalom magazine! This has been at JFC – UIA, and the cooperation of It’s been a beautiful summer a difficult the Jewish Federation of Toronto, we W year with a will be displaying a number of original here in Nova Scotia, sunny and warm almost every day. Our great weather major change paintings by famous Canadian artist Tom helped make Camp Kadimah 2012 one of of premises Forrestall. Included will be a range of our best years ever. My congratulations and we could scenes of Camp Kadimah and a group to our Director, Jared Goldlust (newly not have of watercolours done in Israel by Mr. engaged) and his staff, along with the maintained our Forrestall, with our AJC mission 2010. hardworking members of our camp services without Also attending will be members of our committee. the support of Camp Kadimah committee, including these two fine our Director and members of the AJC Summer has gone by like a gust of wind members of our staff. My thanks to Maya Board including Howard Conter, Regional off Spring Garden Road. As always here at Moscovich, finishing her first year as UJA Chair of UJA, and Karen Conter, our the AJC, we face constant changes in our Administrator and Program Assistant, Chair of P2G. Mr. Forrestall will also be staff, our sources of funding and even in and of course to Rabbi David Ellis, now in attendance to discuss his works. This our priorities. Since our last edition, we entering his second decade with the AJC will be an opportunity to reconnect with have bid farewell to Bill Chernin, Director and to Mark David, CIJA Consultant, our Kadimah alumni and former Atlantic of Campus Services, who served our Advocacy.
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